Hi everyone! Thank you for listening to Women Who Travel. We hope that you enjoy this podcast

as much as we enjoy creating it. We'll be back next week with a brand new episode. Today,

we'll share a rerun of one of my favorites. In this episode, Dr. Orna Goralnik, host of Showtime's

Couples Therapy, shares how travel is beneficial for relationships.

Very fitting as we begin to travel for the holidays.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving celebrations, wherever they may be, and we'll see you next week.

Hello, I'm Laleigh Ari Coglu, and this is Women Who Travel, a podcast for anyone who's curious about the world.

Like many people, I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day and all its forced expectations.

It's just not really my scene. And here on this podcast, we're avoiding the cliches,

the heart-shaped food, expensive dinner reservations, and useless presents. But we do have a gift on offer.

We're lucky to have a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who has deep insights into all things

love and travel.

She's Dr. Orna Goralnik, the host of Showtime's documentary series Couples Therapy.

And the good news is she believes travel is beneficial to a relationship.

Travel is like extremely important and it can offer like a great space for growth and change.

I think couples do amazing work sometimes when they get out of their habits.

Eating different kinds of food, anything that gets you out of like a ritualistic, habitual way of thinking and behaving can open up new ways of thinking, new ways of hearing, new ways of understanding,

offering new parts of yourself, getting connected to parts of you that you're not usually

in touch with. And that allows people to get in touch with their better parts so that they can really

work something out or find a good space within themselves where they can give more or hear more.

Travel can often feel like an escape from reality.

It's easier to be your better self when you're, say, eating a gelato on the Piazza San Marco or zipping down a ski slope.

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